Per Frederic M. Hudson, the founder of the Hudson Institute in Santa Barbara, California, and as part of his book introduction and his “Wake-Up Call” , he shares the benefit’s of some simple wisdom.
“Learn how to learn, unlearn, and relearn. Make learning your central business.”

LOVE this article! This is so true and needs to be the foundational starting point to help people who want to grow their development. Many people claim they want to learn more, but they aren’t willing to unlearn what they already know and as a result, never realize the full extent of results that they could if they would “unlearn” some things. I’m going to go see what I can unlearn today! Thanks Dan!!

Nice Article. Caught my eye and gave food to my thoughts. It ain’t easy though.
I have been unemployed from past year and I have been trying to learn new things from quite sometime. I definitely want to go back to what I know because that is easy and comfortable, however for some reasons I cant.
I must unlearn and then, Learn.

I’ve learned a lot over the past year in helping my company in a culture building initiative. I can see in some ways that ‘unlearning’ something that comes natural is similar to breaking a bad habit. There are scientific components deeply rooted in the brain that are associated with ‘unlearning’ or ‘breaking bad habits and replacing them with good habits’ as explained by Charles Duhigg in his book “The Power of Habit”. The unlearning process can be quite difficult but it can be done. Dan, this is a great site to help reinforce those things I have learned, as well as new things I’ve not thought about. Thanks for the daily reminders.

Correlating issues with unlearning to “old dogs” might not provide the best analogy. It is true, that unlearning is challenging. It is also true, though, that the need to unlearn before learning new things may happen at any age. “Old dogs” might be more agile at unlearning because they’ve had to do this time and again.